flyblown

Adjective

WordNet 3.0

Adjective (3)

  1. spoiled and covered with eggs and larvae of flies“flyblown meat”“a sack of maggoty apricots”Synonyms: maggoty
  2. foul and run-down and repulsive“a flyblown bar on the edge of town”“a squalid overcrowded apartment in the poorest part of town”“squalid living conditions”“sordid shantytowns”Synonyms: squalidsordid
  3. especially of reputation“a flyblown reputation”
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Flyblown \Fly"blown`\, a. Tainted or contaminated with flyblows; damaged; foul. [1913 Webster]

Wherever flyblown reputations were assembled. --Thackeray. [1913 Webster]

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